Solar energy can significantly contribute to transforming the technosphere by tapping into the available and abundant power source of light radiation. The rise of the technosphere is fuelled by the combustion of fossil fuels, a rapid augmentation of the carbon in circulation on Earth, which is mutating the Earth System beyond the parameters of the Holocene. Fossil fuels also lock in the understanding of the future, combining notions of technology, progress, and emancipation and associating them with the lure of riches generated by petroleum commodities. The imaginaries of a high-energy and high recycling technosphere, on the contrary, are not locked-in: they open in all directions.
Matilde Seabra
Matilde Seabra is an architect and cultural mediator based in Porto. She coordinates contemporary art, architecture and heritage programmes, designing community-projects that emerge from the specificities of each context of natural and urban places in Portugal. Co-founder of Talkie-Walkie (2012), she works at the intersection between academic and popular knowledge convoking thinkers, activists and artists to be part of the cultural projects. She currently leads ping! Programa de Incursão à Galeria (learning project and Public Program) of Galeria Municipal do Porto.